Release on crates.io? about uefi-rs HOT 6 CLOSED

Great news! The author of the other crate replied and provided us the name. We're now published on crates.io! And the docs.rs page works too!

As part of this, I've eliminated the uefi_alloc and uefi_logger crate and instead made them into optional features of the core crate. This will simplify publishing / dependencies and I see no potential downsides. Instead of uefi_alloc:: the users now have to use uefi::alloc:: (and enable the option in Cargo.toml). It gives me the idea to keep on simplifying and possibly remove the exts and services crates too.

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Thanks for the clarification!

About the name: The uefi crate wasn't updated since mid 2017, maybe the author is willing to transfer the name.

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@edigaryev I agree that the core API is more-or-less stable and I'd love to have easily accessible docs too.

But these are just excuses, it's more my laziness that's to blame :/

I've contacted the person who owns the uefi name on crates.io, and hopefully they will give us the name. Otherwise, I will start thinking about new names for the crate and work towards publishing it.

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On one hand, we're still doing some fundamental modifications to the code, so the interface is far from stable. I know that 0.x versions don't guarantee any sort of stability, but we would be releasing new versions way too often. There would've been no advantage to labeling releases with semver.

Another issue is the name of the package. A lot of the good names have been already taken.

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+1 for publishing unstable versions

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On one hand, we're still doing some fundamental modifications to the code, so the interface is far from stable.

https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/graphs/code-frequency

Is this still the case after one year of development?

Also, releasing this crate will automatically make documentation available on docs.rs which is really handy for development, as currently you have to build it manually on each development machine.

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